Things an architect should know
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Things an architect should know
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#2Is this meant to be art? Why should an architect know Shakespeare and QWERTY?
Should a welder know about quarks and neutrinos?
Re: Things an architect should know
#3Is this meant to be art? Why should an architect know Shakespeare and QWERTY? Should a welder know about quarks and neutrinos?
Its clearly not a practical guide.
It was also posted 16 hours ago and sunk without trace, presumably because nobody wanted to say 'this is stupid' incase it was genius and they appeared thick.
It is pretty stupid.
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#4Is this meant to be art? Why should an architect know Shakespeare and QWERTY? Should a welder know about quarks and neutrinos?
I was wondering the same thing. Many of these don't have any context. Found a blog which expands informationally on some, but still no whys:
https://adamachrati.wordpress.com/category/sorkin-250/
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#5I feel like this would be improved with hyperlinks for context. Many of the points seem to cryptically refer to dangers like "the energy embodied in aluminum" presumably referring to how dangerous aluminium cladding is when on fire. I'd like to know, for instance, what the context is for "the rate at which that carpet you specified off-gasses"
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#6While this is a little... excessive and dare I say a slightly indulgent list, I think it communicates a concept with merit.
Architecture is creating form which exists in a very complex system. Thats a concept that we could at least extrapolate and apply to other industries.
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#7Is this meant to be art? Why should an architect know Shakespeare and QWERTY? Should a welder know about quarks and neutrinos?
I think that one should know deeply about its craft.
Architecture is about design so it's fair to think that an architect should know about art and (some kind of) product design.
The analogy that I can think would be something like - A developer should know about network and how the user will use software, this concepts are important even if the programmer do not work directly with this things.
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#8I feel like this would be improved with hyperlinks for context. Many of the points seem to cryptically refer to dangers like "the energy embodied in aluminum" presumably referring to how dangerous aluminium cladding is when on fire. I'd like to know, for instance, what the context is for "the rate at which that carpet you specified off-gasses"
>the energy embodied in aluminum
See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_energy
>the rate at which that carpet you specified off-gasses
I think the general idea behind this one is know that the materials you select can have an adverse effect on those who have to live with them. Carpet is one example to illustrate the point
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#9I feel like this would be improved with hyperlinks for context. Many of the points seem to cryptically refer to dangers like "the energy embodied in aluminum" presumably referring to how dangerous aluminium cladding is when on fire. I'd like to know, for instance, what the context is for "the rate at which that carpet you specified off-gasses"
"embodied energy" means the energy needed to create the material. So that involved in mining aluminium, refining ore etc, moving it around the world until it's built into a building.
Carelessly specified new carpets will off-gas VOCs to the detriment of the local air quality (until there's none left in thecarpet material).
In both cases he's saying that an architect should be aware of the wider context of their material choices and consequential effect on both the planet and the building's inhabitants.
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#10Is this meant to be art? Why should an architect know Shakespeare and QWERTY? Should a welder know about quarks and neutrinos?
> Why should an architect know Shakespeare and QWERTY?
Well why not? QWERTY could refer to just being able to type. An artist could possibly do well to be able to use a computer? It could also refer to the placement on old style typewriters where the type bars could get jammed if letters used often in the English language were typed in quick succession. (Myth maybe? But interesting to think about anyway for someone that is going to design things for other people to use.)
As to Shakespeare, it has been suggested that people that read fiction/literature of this sort develop empathy and makes you a "better" person.